This thesis aims to investigate how previously acquired languages influence the acquisition of a third language (L3); modes of transfer/cross-linguistic influence (CLI) (wholesale vs. property-by-property) and factors that select the source of transfer. This longitudinal empirical study contributes to the core questions of generative adult language acquisition and adds to the current discussion on ...

Languages spoken in the Kalahari Basin Area abound with phonetic complexity, particularly with regard to clicks and stops. In these languages, the root-initial onset position is the only position within a root that allows clicks and most egressive obstruents to occur. Some clicks and obstruents are produced phonetically as sequences of release bursts, such as a coronal stop followed by a dorsal ...

We present the challenges faced and decisions made in creating the Russian Constructicon (https://constructicon.github.io/russian/) as a multifunctional resource. We focus on two crucial categories of target users, linguists and L2 learners & instructors, and show that they have somewhat conflicting needs and expectations. While linguists want a maximally comprehensive inventory and its description, ...

Las perífrasis verbales son construcciones sintácticas que constan de dos o más verbos que constituyen un solo núcleo de predicado. El primero de ellos es el verbo auxiliar que aporta modo, tiempo, persona, número y aspecto; mientras que la forma verbal auxiliada escoge los argumentos. La carga semántica que conserva el auxiliar hace que se pueda hablar de perífrasis modales y tempoaspectuales. El ...

Objectives: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of using the learners' first language (L1) as a translation tool on their foreign language vocabulary acquisition. The study aims to explore whether incorporating L1 translation activities into foreign language instruction could enhance vocabulary learning among young learners in an Iranian context. Methodology: The study follows ...

The Skolt Sami people have their traditional homeland in Eastern Finnmark (Norway), Northern Lapland (Finland), and on the Kola Peninsula in Northwest Russia. Skolt Sami language is classified as a nearly extinct indigenous language according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger (Moseley and Nicolas, 2017), with just over 300 speakers (Jakhelln, 2021, p. 8). This thesis is ...

Im Jahr 2023 jährte sich zum 250. Mal der Geburtstag des dänisch-norwegischen Naturwissenschaftlers, Philosophen, Schriftstellers und Universitätsreformers Henrik Steffens (1773–1845),1 der sein gesamtes Berufsleben in dem seinerzeit politisch noch nicht existierenden Deutschland verbrachte – als Freund Schel-lings und Schleiermachers, als Professor, als Literat und als aktiver ...

Der Beitrag handelt davon, wie Steffens sein Interesse an chemischen Prozessen in der Natur mit zeitlichen Prozessen in der Geologie zusammenbringt. Durch die Fokussierung chemischer Prozesse gelingt es ihm – so die These – die Prozessualität organischer und anorganischer Erscheinungen nachzuweisen und dadurch sein Projekt einer „innern Naturgeschichte der Erde“, die sowohl Anorganisches als Organisches ...

Fra 1962 – 1964 ble det utført en utgravning av Trondenes prestegård. Grunnet lite erfaring og mangel på metode har dokumentasjonen fra denne utgravningen vist mye problematikk som har ført til lite forskning på gården. Tilstanden til dokumentasjonen m.m. har også ført til at materialet er delvis uprosessert. Det har tidligere blitt gjort en undersøkelser av keramikkmaterialet på Trondenes av Trude ...

This paper argues that democratic collectives have reason to increase the voting power of their younger members. It first presents an intuitive case for weighted voting in general, before drawing support from a prominent principle of democratic inclusion – the all affected principle. On a plausible understanding of that principle, a decision may affect people to varying degrees, and this ...